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However, this American is usually an unwitting tool of America's colonial goals, of its official modernization effort. He goes about his work with no conception of its implications for Lao nationalism. Even when he has no part of it, he cannot undo the damage done by the American war effort nor can he even rectify the image of the American oppressor. And what if he could? He only serves to divert the enthusiasm of the people from their only realistic source of security...
Diplomacy comes into light because Meselson must work closely with the very people he is trying to undo in Washington; that he has accomplished as much as he has in limiting chemical and biological warfare is something of a miracle...
...inside and out. Sanders Theatre under the soothing light of a winter moon, three views of the Square, another three of the Charles, two charming sketches of the one and only Harvard Yard, the second of which done up in lacy valentine. If you have the tenacity to carefully undo the book's binding quite a few of its pages could even be said to be all too suitable for framing...
Hussein's orders were terse. The new government was "to act immediately to undo hostile planning and restore matters as they should be." "Hostile forces," the King added, had "undermined national unity, shaken the armed forces, dynamited their military spirit and discipline, and created a state of despair." At Majali's command, the Jordanian army was soon moving tanks and artillery into Amman...
Fortunately, a few men are working to undo the errors of the many. U.S. conservationists have provided sanctuaries in Texas for whooping cranes, which have thus risen from a low of 15 cranes in 1941 to nearly 80 today. Similar efforts saved the grizzly bear, the bison and African cheetah. On Grand Cayman island in the Caribbean, a new "turtle farm" is now hatching the first of thousands of eggs. This will help prevent the turtles' rapid depletion by the cosmetics industry. In the Pacific Northwest, the sockeye salmon is proliferating, thanks to artificial incubation and man-made channels...